i have a 350 rem mag and i LOVE it. it's a T/C Encore with 20" MGM barrel. for Pennsylvania deer i shoot the now discontinued .358 remington 150gr. PSP cor-loc's over 62gr blc-2. very mild recoil but for bigger game i change to the 225gr B-tip with 58gr of H380. who else likes the 350 reington mag?

Used a Rem 673 guide gun for a horseback black bear hunt in Idaho. Great little gun, fits scabbard well, accurate, one shot success on the bear. Used 225 gr Swift A-Frames.

My 350 Rem is built on a std 98 action with a long throat. It shoots 225 gr X bullets into nice little groups. Very effective rifle.

I have a pair of 700 Classics in 350. They are very light and accurate. I like them!

Tell me more about these, I'm trying to aquire one in a ruger. It looks good and has a 22 inch barrel w/no sights. Looked at the website, on there it said they are a 1-14 twist but the stainless model is a 1-12 twist? Was that a typo?

I have the ruger in stainless. Mine is a 1 in 12 I checked. Cannot say about the blued. Mine is extremely accurate. The ruger will let you get a little more oal than the standard of 2.800. Which is nice if you want to shoot heavy bullets. The 350 is very underapperciated. Recoil is never a problem just need a little better recoil pad. I own four 350s. Two remington 660 one remington 600 a remington xp 100 and the ruger. I like the short handiness of the remingtons but they are just two pretty to take in the woods except one. But the ruger works so well I have not spent much time on getting that remington rolling. The xp 100 can be a handful but loaded down to 35 remington levels it is no worse than a 44 pistol.

The .350 RM is truly an underated rated round (as is the Whelen). My .350 RM is a 673 guide gun with a Leupold FX-III 6x scope on it.

With 250 gr. Speer HC's and some RL-15 (2500fps, clocked) it shoots 1/2" cloverleafs at 100 yards. With a 250gr. Grand Slam it shoots closer to a 3/4-1" group.

Basically, I'm quite comfortable with the grouping and the load to know it's going to do it's job if I do mine. 250gr. at 2500fps is big medicine for the America's.

But the best part is that I also load a 125gr. JHP over some IMR 4895. 2650fps and 1" groups at 100 yards. It's my "Bunny Load" and it's just huge fun!

This year I'm taking it to Texas with me to have a chat with some Hogs. I suspect we will see some very serious action this year!

Ruger S/S in 350RemMag ... totally love it!Cheers...
Con

I had a Rem Model 7 KS in 350 RM, a great little walking around rifle for our biggest deer here in OZ. I regret getting talked out of it by one of the guys I hunt with, but he desperately wanted one in the time before Ruger came out with the chambering.
About 5 lbs, and moderate recoil.

Have a 700 Classic and a 660. Instant death on whitetails using the 200 gr. CoreLokt and a stiff charge of H4895 pushing it slightly over 2800....

i like to shoot the 180 grain hornady single shot pistol bullet. i end up shooting does most of the time and take lung shots at standing deer with the rifle. my 673 is a fairly decent rifle. i have not done much in the way of target shooting with it. got some serious ring rash when i first had the rifle. prone shot early in the morning. my buddy and i saw the deer at the same time and the race was on to get off the first shot. was shooting a heavy bullet / heavy load and got one heck of a cut over my left eye.

It appears that the 350RM is the ballistic equal of the 35 Whelen. There are a ton of 35 Whelen fans on this site. Both cartridges are very capable of 250 grainers at 2500 fps.

I'm assuming both are not very popular to the masses compared to alot of the 30, 338, and 375 cals. I just don't hear much about the 35 cals in the popular press.

Everyone that owns a 35 cal raves about its' ability to knock the stuffing out of whitetail like nothing else. Seems like a very good combination of knockdown power, relatively moderate recoil, etc... The only negative I can see is maybe the lack of reloading components.

Still, I wonder why the 35s aren't more popular.

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Originally posted by Slatts:
It appears that the 350RM is the ballistic equal of the 35 Whelen. There are a ton of 35 Whelen fans on this site. Both cartridges are very capable of 250 grainers at 2500 fps.

I'm assuming both are not very popular to the masses compared to alot of the 30, 338, and 375 cals. I just don't hear much about the 35 cals in the popular press.

Everyone that owns a 35 cal raves about its' ability to knock the stuffing out of whitetail like nothing else. Seems like a very good combination of knockdown power, relatively moderate recoil, etc... The only negative I can see is maybe the lack of reloading components.

Still, I wonder why the 35s aren't more popular.

I think that's a very reasonable question. I think the answer can truly be summed up in asking the question "Who Needs It".

Or, alternatively titled, what does the .35 give that the .'06 doesn't? And who needs THAT?

IF we look at the Whelen we see a necked up '06. Now we have a rifle that can comfortably fire a 250gr. bullet or even up to a 300gr. "Heavy for caliber" bullet. An 06 has the 220 gr. bullets at the max. Not so much difference, really. Especially on smaller game.

What the Whelen/RM does is create a round that can take North America's biggest game (Griz, Moose, etc.) with more authority...but how many people actually DO hunt those critters??? I think there's a supply-demand issue here. Not enough demand in general (not enough game) to simply require the purchase of such a rifle.

When you think about it too, the Whelen is pretty much identical to the 9.3 x 74 cartridge. Ballistics are too close to split, yet the 9.3, while light, is Africa DG "authorized" in certain countries. So why buy a rifle that can only serve one duty? You may as well take the step up in power to a .375...

And I think therein is the answer: the Whelen's are really in a grey area. Too much HP for all but a couple of North America's game and not enough for Africa. A specialist round perhaps? Or perhaps the round's specialty is it's limitation.

Couple that with limited bullet selection (sarching Midway shows there's what, 15 types of bullets/weights? vs. the .30's having hundreds...) and a trajectory that really does limit the rifle to 300 yards...

As a medium range moderately heavy North American Thumper - it's fantastic. It's just that very few people actually NEED that kind of rifle. The '06 is more versatile and if you don't reload, the '06 wins every time.

Does the .350 whomp whitetails? Hell Yes.

Umm, does my .257 Bob with 50% less bullet whomp whitetails? Ummmm, yeah.

Crap. Whitetail season's comin' up. Which do I take?

This year I've got a bet with my friend. Will my RMag kill big hogs deader than his .300 mag. I'll take the RMag...but I suspect the Bob would be a better rifle...

Just picked one up this morning in a Ruger MKII 77. Blued/Wood . I have to check the twist to see what it is. Rugers website kinda confused me but I would guess its 1-12 twist. Picked up a box of corelokts earlier so I can put some rounds down the tube tomorrow. Hopefully it shoots well.

Love it had 2 350's in 600's for about 10 years now dont hunt with them much but neat to have. I find my self using a 9.3x62 and a 358 cause I can, but might take out one of the 600's just to hear it bark!

Ed

I don't have a .350 Rem. mag., but I did shoot one once in a Rmington 600. Liked it but couldn't talk the guy out of it. Life's a bitch, then you marry one. I do have three rifles in .35 Whelen though and five in .358 Win. and they are quickly becoming serious favorites.
From what I understand, the reasoning behind the Whelen was back in the early 1920's, if you wanted a serious big game rifle like the .375 H&H, you'd best have a well filled pocketbook. Most people didn't, but a 30-06 rifle could be either rebored or rebarreled to the .35 Whelen and you had a rifle that was more than adequate. When Winchester brought the M70 out in .375 H&H, there really wasn't much need for the Whelen anymore. The fact that none of the factories chambered for the Whelen during it's heyday didn't help it in popularity either. Too bad as it's a better round than many people give it credit for.
For some silly and very unexplained reason, the American shooter has a strong dislike for anything in .35 caliber except for the old .35 Remington. The .358 Win. is really more of the same thing, kind of like the .35 Rem. on steroids, but most people shun it like they would a leper. maybe it's too fast for woods hunting and not fast enough for more open hunting, and it didn't come with a belt and the magnum title. Too many "egg-spurts" in the gun rags said it was just a woods round that kicked too hard. Most of us "peons" who don't know any better (according to the "egg-spurts") who have used the .358 and .35 Whelen do know better.
I dunno if I'd try a 300 yard shot with my Whelens but I feel confident that out to 250/275 yards, I can put it where I want it to go.
Right now I'm just waiting, and hanging on with my fingernails, to see if I drew a damned deer tag this year. I sure didn't draw for elk, DAMMIT! If I do draw though, one of my .35's will be going along.
Paul B.

I haven't had one either, but I'm a fan of the Whelen, and always figured a little 22" M70 would be a dandy chambered in 350. 225's and heavy cast loads.

Well took the 350 mag to the range last week and ran some factory loads through it. Remington 200 gr corelokts came in about two inches on the groups I shot. I also checked the twist its a 1-12". The rifle does have some recoil but that can be dulled with a good pad. I like it but the feeding is still a little rough.

Being a 35 nut, I like all 35 cartridges. However, if I were building a 35 on a long action I would go with the Whelen or Norma mag; a short action would probably become another 358 Win. If I found a nice Remington M7 Custom in 358 for a fair price, I'd snag it. The 358 Win is a magic round that often equals or comes close to the Whelen and in a shorter package, I can fit more in the mag, and I believe they feed smoother than it's belted cousin. Lou

I am going to try a .358 Win this season, I just acquired a Ruger hawkeye all weather, man that is a heavy rifle however it looks strong!)..I am up to 51 grains of TAC behind a 200 grain Hornady interlock with absolutely no signs of pressure problems. I think however I am going to drop back to a 180. Here is what I am testing...fat, light for caliber bullets at high velocities into 100-150 pound WT deer....will they run less after being double lunged/